For the 2013 feature film ‘Riddick’ starring Vin Diesel the talented Simonetta Mariano asked us to fabricate numerous sculpted battle-suit pieces using her amazing designs. We ended up sculpting, molding, casting and painting more than 140 parts that were then assembled and detailed by her costume team. ...

One of the most gruesome make-ups we have done for the French movie ‘La Peur’ , directed by Damien Odoul was of this soldier who was shot in the face. It is actually based on the 1914-1918 World War references supplied to us by production. In real life, the soldier did not die from this...

Asked by director Damien Odoul to try to duplicate ‘as close to reality as possible’ some of the wounded soldiers’s pictures from the First World War supplied to us by production, we ended up sculpting, building and applying more than 50 different casualties make-ups on that...

This year again, we have the immense pleasure of having been nominated, Edwina and I (and the whole Lifemaker team) in the ‘BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP’ category at the Canadian Screen Awards. Here are some of the pictures of the work...

This year again, we have the immense pleasure of having been nominated, Edwina and I (and the whole Lifemaker team) in the ‘BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP’ category at the Canadian Screen Awards. Here are some of the pictures of the work...

This year again, we have the immense pleasure of having been nominated, Edwina and I (and the whole Lifemaker team) in the ‘BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP’ category at the Canadian Screen Awards. Here are some of the pictures of the work...

close-up of ‘Rotting Sally’. We had to do this rotting make-up, using multiple prosthetics on the live actress too; the very talented and patient Meaghan Rath. Amy Aquino (‘Donna witch’) working on the ‘Sally Mummy’ to bring her back to life… Beauty and Rotting, together… One of my favorite ‘Sally’ pics: Actors Sam Huntington, Meaghan Rath (Sally) and Kristen Hager, examining the fake ‘Sally’....

Actor Kyle Breitkopf in his stage 1 ‘Abomination’ make-up for ‘Being Human’. ‘Prank Patrol’ Yeti waiting for his 15 minutes of fame. Foam latex. the ‘Picasso’ mask for Cirque du Soleil’s tv series COSMIK. Some of the characters created for Cirque du Soleil’s tv series COSMIK. My old friend the foam latex. ‘Fear of the Dark’ ‘Big Wolf on Campus’ ‘Le Marais’ on Paul...

Multiple prosthetics make-up for the tv series ‘Bullet in the Face’. Actor Max Williams had to play 2 roles, one with his own features, and one with silicone cheeks and nose, gelatin eyebags, lenses and a wig. first test make-up of the cheeks and lenses; no wig or nose yet. Completed make-up as it looked on set. first test make-up with the wig added;...

Over the last 20 years we have made hundreds of fake bodies in many states of decay, suffering very different kinds of deaths. Here are some of the most memorable… the ‘black chess pieces’ from ‘5150’ the ‘white chess pieces’ from ‘5150’… Jean-Michel incarnation number 15! with a porn star mustach… the beautiful Meaghan Rath…many weeks after her character’s death Timothy Hutton’s character both...